Manchester’s Changing Skyline

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St Michael’s - 44 fl Residential / Hotel - City Centre

 

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From Ashbury, train station bridge, East Manchester on Tuesday night.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

^Glassworks is a nice enough small tower but not where it’s been situated.

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It doesn’t fit in with anything around it, lurks over the Lower Turk’s Head and Scuttlers making those interesting buildings seem unimportant.

There’s too much of this in Mcr city centre.

Replacing old buildings in areas like this should be with an ‘old town’ sort of feel where buildings compliment each other. Build new but in older style. The Town Hall, for example, was built in 1877 but is neo-gothic and looks like it was built in the 13th century. Similarly, mock-Tudor buildings look like they may have been built in 1580 but were probably built in the 1880s. Not everything new has to be steel and glass. What was the last new build that was built in an older era style?

Build areas up like a ‘new town’ in specific area where there’s some consistency and homogeneity.

Block after block after block of dull mundane architecture which will date badly

 

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Block after block after block of dull mundane architecture which will date badly

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

 

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[Pingu the Penguin]

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Indeedy!

 

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Would love to do a tour of the Town Hall, get up in the clock tower and on the roof and see all the detail of the refurbishment. A great building that I’ve missed seeing.

 

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Click on the arch shape in the centre of the Eleven page, link below, scroll down to the 3 Nobu CGI’s, already seen, watch the centre Visualisation of the Manchester skyline with Nubo change from morning to night slowly.

Not very clear screen grabs below. The Visualisation Is much clearer.

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I’m not sure if the preview film is new or not, but there are some really good closeup shots of the model.

Click on the link below and scrolled down to the preview film.

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Victoria North, a 155-hectare regeneration programme led by Manchester City Council and Far East Consortium (FEC), is beginning to reshape this territory into something Manchester has never had before: a chain of new neighbourhoods woven together by green space, connected infrastructure, and a masterplan that stretches decades into the future.

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Big changes are coming to Manchester with the huge Victoria North project ready to roll in.

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Click on the arch shape in the centre of the Eleven page, link below, scroll down to the 3 Nobu CGI’s, already seen, watch the centre Visualisation of the Manchester skyline with Nubo change from morning to night slowly.

Not very clear screen grabs below. The Visualisation Is much clearer.

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I’m not sure if the preview film is new or not, but there are some really good closeup shots of the model.

Click on the link below and scrolled down to the preview film.

The sound is music, if you want to listen to it?

Nobu Manchester - Salboy

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I’ve always been waiting for a tower to rise above the West Pennine Moors horizon from that view from Gee Cross.

 

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It’s quite a classy building, the clock has always been nice and I like the RYLANDS lettering.

Just hope they can sort out the streetscape around the building because I think that walk either side of the Market St Met stop, around round the corner to High Street and the gap on the other side on the way to Sacha’s all around that building is one of the grimmest looking parts of the city centre.

Far too much ugly grafitti around there.

 

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[jimharri]

Hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread, but I came across this on IG, and thought it was worth posting....

 

[jimharri]

Block after block after block of dull mundane architecture which will date badly

Agreed. They're nice and shiny, these new tower blocks that are taking over large parts of Central Manchester. But, to my expat eyes, they appear soulless. Compare those buildings at the bottom of Deansgate to Chetham's, the town hall, the cathedral, the Refuge building (I refuse to call it Kimpton's!) etc etc. But that's progress, right.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

I remember a time when Fort Ardwick was put forward as the future of housing.

 

[blue44]

Manchester in the distant mist , right now.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Agreed. They're nice and shiny, these new tower blocks that are taking over large parts of Central Manchester. But, to my expat eyes, they appear soulless. Compare those buildings at the bottom of Deansgate to Chetham's, the town hall, the cathedral, the Refuge building (I refuse to call it Kimpton's!) etc etc. But that's progress, right.

Reminds me of lyrics in the Mike Canavan song about Manchester. IIRC it went :
"I've seen some changes made, new buildings going up by the score.
Just give 'em time for a coating of grime, and they'll be just like the ones we had before".

 

[Blue Boy 63]

Some good views of the city and the in this video